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PUEBLO - For the third time, Pueblo County Commissioners delayed a vote on licensing a new marijuana grow operation on Red Creek Springs Road.
The lack of action frustrated both the investor who has prepared the property for growing marijuana, as well as real estate developers who says the...

PUEBLO - One of the largest solar energy projects in the US is closer to becoming a reality in Pueblo. The Board of County Commissioners voted this morning to approve land use for a 120 megawatt solar farm near the Comanche Generating Station. The project is a cooperative effort between...

PUEBLO - Criminal offenders receiving substance abuse treatment at Crossroads Turning Points in Pueblo will be moved to other halfway houses around the state or released into the community over the next sixty days. When the county's contract with Crossroads expired last month, the owners told commissioners they would not...

PUEBLO - As deputies move into the new Pueblo County Judicial Building this month to secure that facility ahead of an August opening, Sheriff Kirk Taylor is speaking out about suggested budget cuts that could force him to lay off employees next year. Taylor said he has told the County...

EL PASO COUNTY - Take a drive through Falcon and you'll see them. Messages calling on drivers to "sell your home" "fix your furnace" or "vote for me."
A growing number of temporary and permanent signs crowd around intersections and along the roadsides in this part of the county....

PUEBLO - She calls it the night that nothing happened. Pueblo County Commissioner Liane "Buffie" McFadyen spoke for the first time this morning about a scandal that broke two weeks ago.
She took about 25 minutes at the start of the Board of County Commissioners meeting to praise the...

PUEBLO - County Commissioners in awarded a contract to a new halfway house Wednesday. Intervention Community Corrections Services will lease the facility on Hudson Avenue owned by former Pueblo City Councilman Al Gurule.
That facility was closed by the state back in May. ICCS operates halfway houses and treatment...

PUEBLO - The president of the Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region claims if voters in Pueblo don't pass a proposed quality of life sales tax increase, they may be forced to close their animal shelter here.
The City of Pueblo and Pueblo County have held a joint...

PUEBLO - Bartender Crystal Evans' car was gone by the time she woke up one cold morning back in January.
"I was without a car for almost two months," she said. "I had to walk back and forth to work, getting out of work at 2:00 in the morning,...

PUEBLO - Pueblo County Commissioners have officially opened up bids for a new halfway house provider after the troubled Community Corrections Services Inc. (CCSI) closed in May. The county sought and received permission from the Colorado Division of Criminal Justice to award a contract for up to 200 new beds,...

El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa is trying to rush a tax increase question for the November ballot before the deadline. He's asking for a 16 million dollar a year tax increase; that could comes from property or sales tax, they're still working on the question wording. Sheriff Maketa wants...

COLORADO SPRINGS - The El Paso Board of County Commissioners will consider enacting a four month suspension of any new land use applications for oil and gas exploration at their regularly scheduled meeting Thursday.
The suspension, if approved, would put off the acceptance of new applications until January. Commissioner...

The preliminary outlook for El Paso County's 2011 budget looks positive, but the years that follow don't look as rosy.
El Paso County Budget Officer Nicola Sapp presented a first glimpse at the 2011 budget Tuesday at the Board of County Commissioners meeting. Sales and use tax revenues are...

El Paso County Commissioners are considering a $50 million consolidation project that would relocate several of their offices into one central building.
Should the Sustainable Facilities plan be approved, a vacant office building at the former Intel Processor Plant on Garden of the Gods Road could house the Health...